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Thanks to Amazon, we now know that Acer is looking to introduce a C7 Chromebook that features an 11.6″ touchscreen display. This laptop, once officially announced, will be the second Chromebook to feature a touchscreen after Google’s own Chromebook Pixel. What’s great about the C7 with a touchscreen is that it appears Acer is pricing this one quite affordably, right around $400. Compared to Google’s $1300 offering, this is dirt cheap.

Other specs include an Intel Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and a Lithium ion battery. So internally and externally, it’s almost the C720-2858, but with a touchscreen.

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I want an HP 11 with the power and battery life of a C720. Add in touch screen and backlit keyboard and USB 3.0 ports, and a full-size HDMI port.
lol it’s starting to sound like the Chromebook pixel.
The problem with the new C720 touchscreen is that at $400 it’s getting closer to being the price of a higher quality Windows laptop.

I would love to see a C720 with a backlit keyboard and IPS screen. Touch screen I can take or leave.

forthelulz

very similar in appearance to my bionic lapdock.

TC Infantino

I would love to get this for my parents as a Christmas gift. This plus a ChromeCast, and they would be set.

Shasdo

Remember, in France, $ = €
So if the price is marked at 300€ then it will be 300$

Even though 1$ = 0.75€ + 20%VAT = 0.9€ each time we get srewed.

Nick V

Not that I would be using the Touchscreen all the time, but there are times where it would be nice to just touch it and move on. I think this may be my first Chromebook.

BroRob

Hmmm $150 extra for touchscreen….. tough one!

Blake

Not exactly right. Extra $200 for touchscreen (and larger flash drive) vs the $199 model. Or Extra $150 for touch screen (and again larger flash drive), but with half the RAM vs the $249 model. I wish we didn’t have to choose things like that.

s25

They should all have 4gb ram. I may buy the cheaper one just for that reason.

Blake

They should but they don’t sadly. Only the $249 one has 4GB RAM. It’s really essential if you plan to have more than a small handful of tabs open.

I’d really loved to have seen the Chromebook 11 w/ Haswell and 4GB of RAM.

s25

Yeah that’s the one I ment. Very hard to track one down though. I heard rumors of a Toshiba one as well but haven’t seen anything on it yet

Andrew

Clever headline there.

http://www.droid-life.com/ Tim-o-tato

Well I figured I should try harder given my misspelling of “Snapdragon” earlier this morning lol

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